The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1887-11-12
Correspondence Baltimore County Union.
LETTER FROM BALTIMORE.
Mayor for the Fifth Time-Tuesday' Elec
tion-Fair Elections Demanded by
the People, &C., &c.
BALTIMORE. November Stb 1SS.

BALTIMORE. November sth 1881
Editors Union ten. Latrobe was lnaug Eratcd
yesterday Mayor of Baltimore for the fifth term.
There is no doubt of his having been good Chief
Magistrate of Baltimore and will be so again.
He had many friends among the Republicans who
voted for him and have always done so. He
therefore goes into office not as an apprentice but
as a journeyman in knowing how to manage the
city government. I am one who has voted for
him several times. l would have been glad to see
Mr.. Bartlett successful because l thought him a
good man, but as it has not been so let us hope
Gen. Latrobe, as heretofore, will fully satisfy the
people. He has always been popular and ran
ahead of his party. He has been for and of the
people and hard to beat, especially as Mayor Of
Baltimore.
This has been a legal holiday and very little
doing in business. The public offices are all
closed and people were generally engaged in the
election. 1t has been fine day and altogether
like Indian summer. 1t was quite warm for the
season. The telegraph brings some news of the
election, which takes place in eleven states of our
Union to-day, but nothing very definite. The
dispatches will be looked for with great interest.
They were mostly state elections. As this, how
ever, is what is called an "off year" in politics it
will not be of the same interest as next years
contest when the Presidential election takes place.
There will be great anxiety if the contest is close,
to see the papers tomorrow morning how the
election has gone. If, however, the returns be
very much one-sided people will return to their
business usual and trade will be brisker here
after. We are encouraged to look for fair activity
this fall among the merchants. Your Baltimore
county citizens will now find time in the absence
of politics, ordinations and recriminations to at
tend to other matters more pleasant than politics
and more profitable also. The straight-out Dem
ocrats are very hopeful and calculate upon about
the same old stereotyped majority.
1t matters very little how the election goes to-
day, the fight will never stop until it is fairly
shown that the contest has ended against fraud at
elections and the attempt to corrupt the elective
franchise. This will so on in the future until we
have assurance that it no longer exists. Politics
must become respectable profession so that men
can respect themselves, the party they belong to,
and know that the political end they gain is one
of fairness and responsibility. 1t is not the par
ticuar name given party that make the men
who compose it, but the men-solid and pure in
principle-who make the party, call it what you
may. Honest Republicanism is better than dis
honest Democracy, and Uice 1t is unfortu-
nate that men become so wrapped up ina politi-
cal name that they think nothing can be true but
it. Republicanism is very good name, so is
Democracy, but when neither do right they
lacking in right. Some suppose if he is called
Democrat he cannot do wrong. I regret to say
that in this way sensible politicians often act
foolishly. We require honesty above all else, not
in name, but in reality. For this reason l be-
lieve the Independent Democratic party-not the
straight out-wil be in existence until it finally
triumphs and men will fully understand them
selves. The election which takes place to-day
will possibly foreshadow this fact to extent.
1t will teach lessons for years to come. This is
government of principle, not simply of peculiar
name. Democracy is very good, but if those at
tached to it are void of principle we cannot re-
spect it. So also with Republicanism any
other party 1t ought not to be necessary for men
to defend themselves and the acts Of their party
as they are now often obliged to do.
We shall tomorrow Goth inst,) by aid of the tele
graph and other means, be able to tell which
side has carried the election in this and other
States. No matter, however, which way it should
go let voters always aim at doing what is right
and not be so necessitated to be mixed up in
scandal as has been shown in the columns of our
papers and otherwise the past few weeks. 1t has
been really shameful and persons must now re-
greet the necessity of INDUCING so much in that
sort of sickening stuff. NEsToR.